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Efficiency, scale economies and valuation effects : evidence from bank mergers in India
(2010)
This paper examines two important issues related to bank mergers in India. First, we estimate potential economic gains of state owned banks if they undergo consolidation. Scale economies, returns to scale and profit ...
Gas in the protoplanetary disc of HD 169142: Herschel's view
(2010)
In an effort to simultaneously study the gas and dust components of the disc surrounding the young Herbig Ae star HD 169142, we present far-IR observations obtained with the PACS instrument onboard the Herschel Space ...
Mathematical models of excitability in biological membranes, cells and networks.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)
An information-based solution for the puzzle of testimony and trust
(2010)
In this paper, I offer a contribution to the debate on testimony that rests on three elements: the definition of semantic information (Floridi, 2004), the analysis of trust as a second-order property of first-order relations ...
Self-consolidating concrete and its bond to reinforcement
(Precast Prestressed Concrete Institute, 2010)
Research has shown that high slump concrete mixtures can exhibit bond problems especially at the top-cast bars due to blocking of bleed water underneath the reinforcement. As far as self-consolidating concrete is concerned ...
The changing epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infections
(2010)
The epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has changed dramatically during this millennium. Infection rates have increased markedly in most countries with detailed surveillance data. There have been clear ...
Continuous rotigotine administration reduces dyskinesia resulting from pulsatile treatment with rotigotine or L-DOPA in MPTP-treated common marmosets
(2010-01)
We previously showed that continuous infusion of rotigotine resulted in less dyskinesia than repeated pulsatile rotigotine administration or repeated oral administration Of L-DOPA in MPTP-treated marmosets. Now we investigate ...
Edge detection comparison for license plate detection
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
The detection of license plate region is the most important part of a vehicle's license plate recognition process followed by plate segmentation and optical character recognition. Edge detection is commonly used in license ...
The application of feature selection to the development of Gaussian process models for percutaneous absorption.
(2010)
Objectives: The aim was to employ Gaussian processes to assess mathematically the nature of a skin permeability dataset and to employ these methods, particularly feature selection, to determine the key physicochemical ...
License plate localisation based on morphological operations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems allow users to track, identify and monitor moving vehicles by automatically extracting their number plates. This paper presents an improved method to locate car plates in ...